November 6th - Starting a New Unit - Macro to Micro

Today we started our New Unit- Macro to Micro.

The learning goals were:
1. Identify and list physical characteristics of organisms.
2. Understand how organisms earn there scientific name.

Students constructed a working definition of physical characteristics/traits.

They also learned new vocabulary:

• taxonomy
• nomenclature
• binomial nomenclature

Here is the link to today's reading - Macro to Micro Lesson 1.

Complete the reading on "What is an organism?" p. 8-11

The Week of September 16th

The students were digging into parts of an experiment this past week.

We completed focused readings on "The Scientific Method- Variables and Controls" as well as "Bill's Cake."  Our goal was to expose the students to vocabulary used in experiments and a specific example to ground their understanding.

Here is a list of the essential vocabulary:

• question
• hypothesis
• experiment
• procedure
• data
• variables- independent variable and dependent variable
• constants
• control
• conclusion